Making History
...hundred years later, I can make out Cuba Libre! and Remember the Maine! I don't remember the Maine, only that a Cuba Libre is made of rum, Coke, and lime....
Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy
In the dream that recurs, like a bird returning, the place is still as it was—as though they went away, years ago, fully intending to be back by first...
Old Elementary
...the first school he despised, in the despised small town where we grew up. I drive past it every time I go back there, the building abandoned years ago by...
Gone With the Wind
...clock creeping past some midnight or noon, over empty streets and the river disappearing at the model's edge the way the Princess would years later, engulfed in flame, Broad Street...
At Cornwall Furnace
Cherokee County, Alabama Blown out just after The War. The stack's granite gapes. Each year saplings try, as gravity has longer, a reclamation masonry won't allow. Lichens and moss do...
California Creek, North Carolina
...I-26 West, near mile 7, California Creek, NC 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. "I really can't comprehend the road or what it might look like years from now. I've...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...per second of the Big Muddy has flowed through the crevasse ever since. Given the substantial loss of land in this coastal region over the last eighty years, partly due...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...of our students spoke to children at the Tutwiler Community Center, which offers year-round activities for African American kids. Teachers brought out maps and the children tried to locate Northern...
Dirty Little Story
...side of the road. This is worse. This is three years' worth of beer cans. This is empty propane tanks, broken fishing rods, dirty diapers, catfish heads, pickup truck bed...